Hungarian MPs' Response Propensity to Emails

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Author(s): Norbert Merkovity (University of Szeged, Hungary)
Copyright: 2014
Pages: 13
Source title: Political Campaigning in the Information Age
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Ashu M. G. Solo (Maverick Technologies America Inc., USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-6062-5.ch019

Keywords: Information Science Reference / Political Science / Social Sciences & Humanities

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Abstract

Within the framework of empirical research, the authors sent an email to every member of the Hungarian Parliament. They wanted to know how many representatives would answer their letter within a one-week period. As a next step, they listed the answerers, the composition of parliamentary groups, gender, age, and the way the representatives got into the National Assembly in the election (from single-member districts or from party list). On the basis of this, they outline the profile of the responding representative. The typical answers came from women, who are members of the opposition and who are between the ages of 30–39. The least responses came from the members of the governing coalition. As a final point, the authors conclude in this chapter that Hungarian representatives do not differ significantly from their colleagues in the Western countries.

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